The Trump Administration’s research funding and DEI cuts present an existential threat to regional public universities like Southern Illinois University, the economic backbone of the conservative rural region it serves.
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ProPublicaA University, a Rural Town and Their Fight to Survive Trump’s War on Higher EducationThe administration’s research funding and DEI cuts present an existential threat to regional public universities like Southern Illinois University, the economic backbone of the conservative rural region it serves.